The Islam and Science Fiction project has two new contributors, Marianne Edwards Saqib Sadiq who bring unique set of skillsets to the team. Marianne is a writer and a therapist based in France, while Saqib is a Business Analyst and a teacher at an Islamic school as well as aContinue Reading
Hello, Readers! So happy to be blogging on IslamScifi. This will be my debut post and I am super excited to get started so that I can hear from you and get to know you better. From my bio, you will come to know that I write my own IslamicContinue Reading
With so many technological changes happening in a short span of time and how they seamlessly become part of our every day practices including religious practices. A case in point is how iPhone and Android apps that tell the time of prayer have become an important part of daily prayersContinue Reading
Better late than never I always say, the wait is over, I give you the Science Fiction short story anthology based on the first Islamicate Short Story contest. There are a total of 12 stories in the anthology and the first three stories are also the ones which won theContinue Reading
Image Source: Freepik The readers may be wondering why the delay in releasing the collection of short stories from the competition. We have updates and good news, I have been working on getting the volume ready and it should be ready before the weekend if not sooner. I was hopingContinue Reading
Islam and Science Fiction would like to welcome new contributors to our website. They come from varied background with diverse experiences: Gwen Bellinger is a writer and consultant currently working with the Indian government’s Department of Education, Josh Hicken is a Software Engineer whose writing background is in journalism,Continue Reading
“Human love… is always combined with some degree of dying—dying to one’s ego, to one’s desires, to one’s preferences for the sake of the other. And this is so because human love is itself a reflection of Divine Love, which we can experience only after the death of our ego,Continue Reading
The moment that we have been waiting for has arrived. We had a total of 84 submissions to the contest. Many of them were quite good. The response from the public has been quite positive so that we have decided to continue this competition in the future as well. HereContinue Reading
Islam and Sci-Fi would like to welcome three new contributors to our team who represent a diverse background with varied experience. Areeba Nasir is the author of No Exit and has masters in English Literature as well as Islamic studies. She “believes writing should be such that brings about aContinue Reading
Occasionally, I’ll pose preposterous questions to my friends: How do Muslims on Neptune decide on a lunar calendar? (Imagine locating the Shawwal moon on Neptune!) Since bodily members can testify on the Day of Judgment, how closely tied is the body to the soul? (If I rearrange my DNA andContinue Reading